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an explorer's balloon above Wild Oat Ridge.<br />

"Beanie, dear, I don't think you slept a wink. Go<br />

back to bed."<br />

"No, I'm fine. Do you have a sponge mop? Tracy,<br />

I'm sorry.<br />

Where's your mop? I could run over this floor a<br />

little."<br />

"For heaven's sake, you make me feel slovenly, like<br />

I belonged in an Irish shantytown. Please, Beanie, go lie<br />

down."<br />

"Am I bothering you?"<br />

"Beanie, Beanie, of course not. Well, yes. I'm<br />

worried about you, that's all. Oh, all right, it's in the<br />

closet by the dishwasher." Tracy turned back to her<br />

secretary, where she was writing a letter to Babaha<br />

Tarook, who should be back in Lebanon by now. But<br />

she couldn't concentrate. What should she do with<br />

Beanie?<br />

Last night from her own room Tracy had heard<br />

Lance say things to his mother that sounded like lines by<br />

one of the angry new lowerclass playwrights. Horrible<br />

things that had finally driven Tracy, trembling, into her

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